Correção de texto: FCE: discursive essay

“The advantages and disadvantages of learning English abroad compared to learning English in your own country” (discursive essay) – Flo Joe writing task of the week.

Being the lingua franca of the twenty-first century, the learning of the English language has become vital for everyone in our society nowadays. You need English for nearly everything: to send emails for a foreigner friend, to read a magazine or newspaper on internet, to take a trip to abroad, to get promoted at work, to do a master degree and post-graduation…
Having this in mind to learn English abroad in native countries such as the United States, The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand seems to be very attractive for those who need to develop their English. Indeed there are innumerous advantages in studying English in a native country: the student will be inserted in an English speaking environment and he is forced to speak and put into practice their knowledge of the language. The person has also the advantage of having a native teacher who can clarify all his doubts and speak with other foreigner students and change experiences.
On the other hand, one of the disadvantages is the high price of studying English abroad is not affordable for everyone. Moreover, if the learner is put into a class with a lot of students from his own country this also may bring some problems like the vicious of speaking in his own native language among his classmates and forget the goal of his presence there.
If we think of learning English in your own country, the advantage is that you will have similar language problems with your classmates and maybe it is a way to improve your studying sharing your doubts and learning from one another. However, the disadvantage of not being in an English environment makes the time of learning English quite extensive. Besides for many students the difficulty in thinking in English without being surrounding by the English language may bring a sort of lethargy state in his learning process.
I firmly believe that the best way of learning English, if one has condition is to study English in a native country. Unfortunately, this is a reality for very few. Thus learning English in your own country most of the times is the only way a person has.